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Anthony Weiner gets into shouting match with voter, looks like he's down a vote (video)

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Anthony Weiner, left, who is seeking the Democratic nomination to run for the New York City Mayor’s Office, has a heated argument with Shaul Kessler at Weiss Bakery in the Boro Park neighborhood in the Brooklyn borough of New York on Wednesday, Sept. 4, 2013. The altercation was captured on video. (AP Photo/Shimon Gifter)

New York City mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner was in a bakery Wednesday when he got into a shouting match with a customer, who said the ex-congressman's behavior in the wake of a sexting scandal was "deviant."

It just so happened that Weiner was surrounded by reporters and campaign supporters in a Brooklyn neighborhood and the exchange was filmed.

On the video, someone yells "scumbag."

Weiner then yelled "Yeah? It takes one to know one, jackass."

The two men then confronted each other in a two-minute exchange, which you can view below.

"You did disgusting things ... you have the nerve to even walk around in public," the man tells Weiner.

"He was saying things within my earshot but not to me and saying some pretty vile things, and apparently he didn't expect that I would not stand idly by for it, and I think I put him in his place," Weiner told reporters, according to The Associated Press. "Just because someone is running for office doesn't mean you have an unabridged right to say whatever vile, nasty thing you want."